Subcancilla
Subcancilla is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Isarinae of the family Mitridae.

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IsarinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Mitridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Mitridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Mitridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
120 occurrences of Subcancilla on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
120 occurrences- Miocene55%
- Pliocene35%
- Pleistocene10%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
35 formations
- Gatun Formation19
- Gurabo Formation12
- Castilletes Formation9
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group5
- Esmeraldas Formation5
- Cayo Agua Formation · Bocas del Toro Group5
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The named rock units Subcancilla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Subcancilla and its relatives
MioceneWhere Subcancilla and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,841 taxa- Architectonica nobilis11 sites
- Anadara10 sites
- Conus9 sites
- Strioterebrum9 sites
- Bellucina actinus8 sites
- Cadulus (Platyschides)8 sites
- Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis8 sites
- Conus molis8 sites
- Lirophora (Panchione) mactropsis8 sites
- Macrocallista maculata8 sites
- Polystira8 sites
- Amusium7 sites
- Antillophos candeanus7 sites
- Thericium7 sites
- Varicorbula disparilis7 sites
- Agladrillia (Agladrillia) characta6 sites
- Agladrillia (Agladrillia) enneacyma6 sites
- Anachis (Costoanachis)6 sites
- Calliostoma6 sites
- Crenella decussata6 sites
- Cruziturricula fusinus6 sites
- Ficus6 sites
- Gouldia costaricensis6 sites
- Hindsiclava consors6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Subcancilla, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
30 references- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions23
- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama18
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel15
- Neogene molluscs, shallow marine paleoenvironments, and chronostratigraphy of the Guajira Peninsula, Colombia10
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Columbellidae to Volutidae).9
- Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae)5
- Biozonation of the Neogene invertebrate megafauna of the Hellenic area4
- Marine Miocene and related deposits of North Colombia4
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel3
- Miocene Mollusca of Northern Colombia3
- Paleoecology and paleobiogeography of fossil mollusks from Isla Isabela (Galapagos, Ecuador)2
- Early Pleistocene gastropods from Timor2
Each of the 120 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 18 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Subcancilla
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jan Delsing
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Subcancilla was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Subcancilla”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itIsarinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Olsson and Harbison 1953)